Dog / Human Conflict

[centrarchid]

"otherwise stays well hidden"
And yet you seem to always be able to take a shot at me.
But dogs terrorizing or killing your birds, not so much,

Still not the same dogs and not the same owners.

 

[The Moonshiner]

idk what you're getting at.
Shoot EVERY dog that shows up to harass your birds or livestock from here on out. Honestly you've pussy footed around long enough.
Not advisable to shoot any owners at this time.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Didn't the dog visit 3 times on the day of this last incident? Being chased home on at least one visit?
Seems like more then enough of a chance to grab a rifle from the house.
Idk maybe moving should be looked into if shooting isn't a route you're willing to take. This seems never-ending without action.

Based.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

tough with the keyboard huh?
Can be. Hell with as many times as these dogs have visited I could have beaten them all to death with my keyboard by now.
Maybe you can hire a guy like me to come solve this drama for ya?

 

[Aunt Angus]

He's dealt with plenty of crazies. Promise. He lives in MO, too.

Is that where all the crazies are, in MO? I thought they were in FL. But we have our share here in CA, too, which us why everyone rolls their eyes at us.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Is that where all the crazies are, in MO? I thought they were in FL. But we have our share here in CA, too, which us why everyone rolls their eyes at us.

I've read there are lots of fruits and nuts in Cali.

 

[Aunt Angus]

I've read there are lots of fruits and nuts in Cali.

Tons.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

I just got off phone with a deputy. He said that even with all the evidence I have, there was nothing he could do. My only recourse through legal system is a civil suit. I thought I had a slam dunk as of tonight, but no.

Better Call Saul.

 

[McChooky]

I believe I'd start a donkey rescue.

 

[RiverOtter]

Oh my word, this seems to have been going on since 2018. I sure hope being a badass, using "your rights" and shooting that first dog has been worth 4 years of neighbor wars and endless torment.

Folks, YOU CAN'T DIVORCE YOUR NEIGHBORS

If you decide to get trigger happy, you don't know if you're setting off more crazy than you're packing. Kill them with kindness. I've lived in AR/MO, and I swear if you'd shown up at their momma's church with a coffee cake and asked the pastor to pray for you to find friendship with your neighbor every Sunday their own family would be against them by now. You don't fight fire with fire, you fight it with water.

Speaking of water, motion activated sprinklers loaded up with some good food coloring also would have taken care of this. A person only wants their big, macho dog coming home bright pink so many times. Then it's their problem and there's no way to spin you as the evil, dog-murdering bad guy, because Fido was just chasing a coon across your yard, actually defending your chickens, because he never hurt little Susie's chickens and now she doesn't have Fido sleeping at the foot of her bed at night - because I promise something like that is your neighbor's story.

And yeah, I've lived it and done it. Most notably, a big chow/Pyr cross kept coming, killed ducks, killed chickens and had to be beat off a goat, but I was always kind to the owner. When finally we did shoot the dog, it was because our sweet neighbor begged us too, she chased him and tried to pull him off our goat and was hysterical. I was still kind and we buried him for her, we became and stayed friends to the end of her life. Another neighbor kept a semi-feral pack. We went the church route and they were actually shamed into moving - the other neighbors fought them and everyone just dug in harder, but there's no fighting niceness, and folks started to think, "Well, there's no way it's RiverOtter's fault, maybe it's been Rotten Neighbor's fault the whole time." You're part of a community whether you like it or not, might as well use it. Because hell no, the cops aren't going to get involved when you're both endlessly calling them on each other, and killing each other's animals left and right. Give them a good guy and a bad guy or they won't even try.

I don't know about you, but to me it's well worth buying 6 cattle panels to pen my birds in and 2 motion activated sprinklers, rather than live like OP has lived for 4 years, with no end in sight.